A personal reflection by a speaker of Pakistani background describing an unconventional mentality from youth: resisting common career paths (doctor/lawyer), aspiring to high earnings, and choosing trading as a way to separate from the crowd and achieve different outcomes.
I come from Pakistani background, so for us, it's always, go be a doctor, go and be a lawyer, and nothing wrong with that. All respect to all that, but mentally, the way I've been wired is if I see something happening, I kind of push away from the crowd. Okay. It's just like a. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's toxic, maybe it's bad, but I'm just like, okay, everyone's doing that. I don't want to do it. I remember I used to tell my mom, like, oh, mom, I'm gonna make like, a hundred thousand a month, and then I'm gonna make a million a month. And my mom's like, no one makes that. I don't know who's getting in your head. That's not real. 100,000 a year is so much money. You're talking about a month. I was watch. What can I do that's different? What can I do that puts me in, like, a different group, right? And that's where, like, the trading idea came from, and that's where, like, the direction kicked in from.
